Consider inelastic head on collision between moving neutron

Last updated: 6/10/2023

Consider inelastic head on collision between moving neutron and hydrogen atom initially at rest The coefficient of restitution is e 1 2 Assume neutron to be a point mass and hydrogen atom to be a solid sphere After collision the H atom gets excited to higher energy level such that the magnitude of electrostatic potential energy is one eighth of KE of electron in ground state The minimum KE of colliding neutron is 1 17 eV 2 34 eV 4 13 6 eV 3 51 eV